THE USAGE OF STYLISTIC DEVICES BY B. JOHNSON'S IN THE CONTEXT OF BREXIT PROMOTION
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DOI 10.18522/1995-0640-2024-1-60-71
The stylistic devices of lexical and syntactic levels, encountered in B. Jonson’s political discourse, are considered in the extra-linguistic context of the forthcoming Brexit in terms of their manipulative function achieved by putting an emotional strain on the audience and increasing the expressiveness of the message. The politician’s speeches, promoting the exit from the EU, are characterized by an extensive use of epithetical adjectives in the comparative and superlative degrees, antitheses, metaphors, hyperboles, repetitions, including anadiplosis, anaphora, epiphora, polysyndeton. They serve to convince the listeners in the advantages of Brexit for the country, instill in them the inadmissibility of its delay, underline the necessity in the integrity of the society, various political forces and all the parts of the United Kingdom in this matter, imply the inevitability of the exit from the EU, indicate its significance and fatefulness and enhance the pressure on the audience. The interaction of the abovementioned language means in the utterance is described and the correspondence between them and certain functions is stated. The solution of the listed communicative tasks contributes to the persuasion of the audience in the necessity of Brexit.
Key words: political discourse, Brexit, B. Jonson, stylistic devices, manipulation
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